On May 6, 1887, the First
Baptist Church of McKeesport organized a mission Sunday school in the public
school building on Wood Street, McKeesport. Within a year this Sunday school
increased in membership so that it was necessary to purchase a building. It was
in this building on Fifth Avenue that the Fifth Avenue Baptist Church was
organized, January 26, 1893,—with 117 charter members, who had been dismissed
from the First Baptist Church by letter. In 1896 the church building was torn
down in order that a larger one might be erected on the same site. This new
edifice was dedicated on October 22, 1899. The present church edifice, located
on the corner of Park Street and Versailles Avenue, was dedicated January 22,
1922. At that time the name of the church was changed from "The Fifth Avenue
Baptist Church" to "The Park Baptist Church of McKeesport." The present
membership is 224.